Classifying organisms

Classifying organisms

Aim: I will know how to classify plants and animals and use text features answer questions.

What words are we going to read about?

Open Ended

Use your vocabulary list to type the definition of classify.

Open Ended

What is the definition of vertebrates?

Open Ended

What is the definition of invertebrates?

Text features

• The letters in blue are the heading. Heading tells you what the reading will be about.

• Words that are highlighted in bold are vocabulary being covered in the reading.

• The sentence the highlighted word is in is usually the definition.

• Highlight or underline the definition of classify in the reading.

How do scientist classify animals?

• Scientist look at their appearance (what they look like), where they live and how they get their food to help classify.

• Highlight the words appearance, where it lives and how it gets food.

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Open Ended

Look at what you highlighted in the text. What is one way scientist classify living things?

Naming Animals

• All animals in the same group have the same characteristics.

• The smallest two groups are genus and species.

• Highlight The smallest two groups are genus and species.

• What are the smallest two groups when naming an animal?

Classifying cats

• Black-fotted cats and house cats are both classified as Felis genus.

• They share the characteristics such as sharp claws and hunting behavior.

• A species is a group of similar organisms that can mate and produce offspring or babies.

• All house cats are classifed as the same species.

Multiple Choice

What animal did we read about?

• cats

• dogs

• elephants

Multiple Select

Check the 2 ways that black footed cat and house cat are the same.

• sharp claws

• hunting behavior

• live indoors

Text feature: picture and caption

• Pictures are images in the text.

• Captions are words under the text.

Open Ended

What is the caption for the house cat picture?

Open Ended

What is the caption for the black footed capt picture?

Multiple Choice

House cats are given the species name domesticus. The word domesticus is Latin for "of the house" . What clue does the name give you about the house cat?

• It hunts at night.

• It lives in a house.

• It is fun to play with.

Important information

• You will have a quizziz assignment based on the reading we did today.

• We will be doing Science in the News tomorrow.

• Friday we will practice organizing notes into a graphic organizer in google classroom. Please make sure you sign into google classroom before you come into class.

You did a great job today.